Shoe.



SHOE.

APPLICATION FILED IBB.17,1911.

Patented Sept. 24, 1912.

GEORGE L. PIERCE, F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SHOE.

Application filed February 17, 1911.' Serial No. 609,229.

.To all whom it may concern.' l j Be it known that I, GEORGE L. PIERCE, a citizen -of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoes, of

' which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to shoes havi ing rubber soles and has for its object improved means for securing the rubber sole to the shoe whereby the sole cannot tear away either in whole or in part when subjected to use and wear.

My invention is especially an improvement on the well-known way of securing rubber soles to shoes by marginal stitches passing through the thickness of the rubber Sole. Such shoes are unsatisfactory in use because the marginal portions of the soft rubber, an inherently weak material', soon tear away from the stitches.- My present invention remedies this defect and its importance will be realized from the fact that,

Ain spite of the great quantities used of this type of shoe, nothing practical has heretofore been foupd 4to remedy the defect in question. y

This and/the other merits'and advantages of my present improvement will be'apparent to those skilled in the art from an understanding of the following description in connection with the drawings which show 'one form 4of shoe embodying my improvement.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of s uch a shoe, part of the upper being cut away to reveag internal structure; Fig. 2 is a cross secti nal view, .partly in elevation on the une e2 in Fig. 1 looking in the fiirecuon of the arrow; and Fig-3 is a partial view of Fig. 2 but showing a modification.

I will now describe the devices of the drawings, reserving it to the claims to point out the novel features constituting my improvement and to indicate the scope of my invention, it being understood that the claims will be given due range of equivalents. y

In the drawings, 1 is the inner sole of the shoe having marglnal ridges 2 on its under side.

3 is the upper or vamp portion of the shoe; `4 is the welt; 5 are t e stitches by which the bottom edges lbf theuppler land the adjacent welt 4 are sewed to t 2 of the inner sole.

e ridges 6 is the rubber sole and- 7 is canvas vulcanized to the upper face of the rubber` sole and having edge or marginal portions 7 projecting' beyond the rubber sole.y lnstead of canvas` other suitable fabrics or materials may be substituted that have suitable strength and can be vulcanized or secured permanently to the rubber sole, e. g. by non-marginal stitching` or otherwise. The canvas piece preferfblly'has the same shape as the rubber sole but is sufficiently larger to have the described projecting margins 7'".

9 is any suitable filling material between `the inner sole and the rubber sole. Finally,

the rubber sole is secured to the shoe by stitches 8 sewed through the margins 7 of the canvas and the welt 4. For this purpose, the outer edge 'of the welt extends sufficiently beyond the edge ofi the rubber sole.

Specification of Letters latent. Patented Sept. 24, 1912'. ,I

This secures. the rubber sole to the shoe without permitting it to tear' away. To finish the shoe, the projecting margin of the canvas can be cemented snugly against the edge of the rubber sole, thereby concealing the stitches 8. i

As another method of securing the canvas margin 7, it may be folded back on itself as shown in Fig. 3, whereupon the stitches. 8 will be inserted. This also gives a neat finish and great strength because the stitches now pass through a double thickness of the canvas.

vOf course, it will be understood that the invention does not relate to the particular make-up of the shoe to which my improvement is shownas being applied, since that may vary, but it does relate to the rubber sole attaching means combination. In short, the' im rovement is applicable not only to welted but also to' turned shoes and to McKayed shoes, etc.

It will be understood that the term rubber-sole used herein does not mean 'that the sole must necessarily be continuous from 'heel to toe, since it may consist merely of ing to my invention, or may consist only of a heel, or ofa heel andl ta joined by a flexible shank portion. Fut er, the term rubber includes an 'equivalent thereof for-thepurposes of an within the spirit of this invention.'4

H-avin thus described my invention, whatlcaimis.`

1. In a shoe, an upper, a sole comprising a rubber body and a fabric' backingpernianently secured to the upper face of the body ized to the top of the rubber sole and having afolded margin projecting beyond the sole, and stitching securing said folded margin to the shoe. l

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE L. PIERCE.

Vitnesses:

ALAN C. MGDONNELL, E. YV. SCHERR, Jr.

Copies of `this' patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

` Washington, D. C. 

